Rocket Lift’s purpose is to help our team live the lives we want while making a difference for clients and projects that improve the world. (We happen to make great websites.) Sounds nice, right? But it only has meaning if we take it seriously, which means assessing how we’re doing.
I was excited to see Tim Smith write up [Edit: now a broken link] his goals for the year ahead, making plain exactly what it means for us to help him live the life he wants. (It’s also great because successful people set goals.) I’ve asked everyone on our team to write up their own personal goals for 2013.
Here are mine.
Doing Cools Things
- By end of June, spend at least half time on local food
- Write something worth reading at least once a month
- Learn improvizational jazz piano
- Make mattheweppelsheimer.com a showcase of WordPress as a garden for personal data-ownership and controlled social connections
Travel
- Visit my brother in Denver at least once for a couple of weeks while working
- Travel overseas while working
- Visit Kirsten and Eric in Minnesota while working
- Live for a month in Eastern Washington while working
Happiness
- Resume regular contact with good friends
- Remain every bit as in love as I am right now
- Track data on SAD in a quantified-self style.
Health
- Maintain 150lbs
- Learn to cook food I love without dairy and gluten
Money
- Make Rocket Lift kick ass and thrive without my full time attention
- Sell $10k/month of [that exciting thing that’s a secret]
- Pay off debt, leaving only student loans
This post is part of the thread: Annual Goals and Review – an ongoing story on this site. View the thread timeline for more context on this post.
Nice. If you’re looking for ideas on dairy and gluten-free recipes let me know. We have a bunch that are tasty. :)
That’d be awesome! Maybe we can do dinner sometime.
Totally. I’ll be in touch. :)
If you are looking for a sustainable way to pay down debt I highly recommend Elizabeth Warren’s book “All Your Worth” a great financial plan that my husband and I have been successfully following for about 6 months now and love!
These look great, Matt! Best of luck–especially the travel goals! :)
These are some amazing goals. Quite a few I plan to implement in my own life! I’m sure it has not escaped your attention that all of your travel goals require you to be working simultaneously. But heck. That’s part of the joy, right? To be working and living travel goals at the same time? Awesome!!
Give yourself permission to have some down time, too. You continue to earn it.
Excited I get a front row seat! Looking forward to a great year!